Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor has a dire warning on his Substack for the president's latest moves to placate America's enemies.
In his book, Taylor reminded readers, "I cautioned that a Trump unbound would treat our friends as enemies and our enemies as friends. What’s more, I warned that flipping the script would put the United States in unnecessary mortal peril by exposing us to surprise attack and stripping us of our greatest legacy and strongest protection: leadership of the free world."
"It’s happening now," he warned, adding that with no one to restrain him, Trump "is abandoning our friends in all the places where we are needed most, and he is leaving behind vacuums to be filled by his dictator buddies."
This can be seen starkly in his move this week to pull back from military exercises with South Korea, purely to placate the Kim regime's aggression. It can also be seen in Trump's lack of concern for the NATO alliance, as Russian aggression only continues to build.
"Our enemies are gobsmacked by what’s happening. Under Donald Trump, we’ve walked out onto thin ice and handed our foes a sledgehammer. They must be fist-pumping in foreign briefing rooms," wrote Taylor. In fact, he added, Trump "may have invited the next Pearl Harbor in the process."
Taylor concluded with an ominous quote from World War II-era British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who said, “How heavily do the destinies of this generation hang upon the government and people of the United States… Will the United States throw their weight into the scales of peace and law and freedom while time remains, or will they remain spectators until the disaster has occurred; and then, with infinite cost and labor, build up what need not have been cast down?”
America chose to fight then, wrote Taylor. And under Trump, "the question has come around again."